different between savine vs savin

English

Noun

savine (countable and uncountable, plural savines)

1. Alternative form of savin
   • 1837, Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (UK), Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Volumes 9-10, page 356,

     In Asia Minor, Mount Taurus is covered with forests of cypress, juniper, and savines.

   • 1837, Charles A. Lee, Report of a Trial for Murder, by the Administration of Oil of Savine, for the purpose of procuring Abortion, The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, Volume 21, page 355,

     Believing that she was pregnant, he gave oil of savine, a deleterious drug, intending to bring on abortion, and an inflammation of the womb was produced, and she died.

Anagrams

• Visean, evasin, naives, navies, naïves

English

Etymology

From Old French savine, from Latin sab?na.

Noun

savin (countable and uncountable, plural savins)

1. The evergreen shrub Juniperus sabina, endemic to Europe, which yields a medicinal oil.
2. The poisonous dried tips of this plant, with anthelmintic properties, used as a drug.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.ii:

     th'aged Nurse her calling to her bowre, / Had gathered Rew, and Sauine, and the flowre / Of Camphara, and Calamint, and Dill, / All which she in a earthen Pot did poure [...].

3. The eastern red cedar, Juniperus virginiana, of eastern North America.

Synonyms

• (Juniperus sabina): bastard killer, cover-shame, savin juniper

Translations

References

• Juniperus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Juniperus sabina on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Juniperus virginiana on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Juniperus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• Sivan, Vinas, vinas

Finnish

Noun

savin

1. Instructive plural form of savi.

Anagrams

• visan